Category: Legal Law

OpenAI joins other tech companies that have tried youth-specific versions of their services. YouTube Kids, Instagram Teen Accounts, and TikTok’s…

However, Trump seems to think that longtime TikTok partner Oracle taking a bigger stake while handling Americans’ user data at…

Earlier this month, Ars spoke with the Consumer Technology Association’s vice president of international trade, Ed Brzytwa, to check in…

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project,…

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a…

Some Republicans are still angry over the deplatforming of Trump by tech executives once known for their progressive politics. They…

Microsoft has avoided an EU fine after the US tech group offered concessions on how it packages together its Teams…

Hale, a 38-year-old with prior felony convictions for armed robbery, risked a potential sentence of 15 years for these crimes,…

Failure to complete the revision process would leave the EPA vulnerable to claims that it’s relying on an incomplete draft…

The bill also drew opposition from the Real Estate Technology & Transformation Center (RETTC). The group’s sponsors include real estate…

In the one-pager, Cruz noted that “most US rules and regulations do not squarely apply to emerging technologies like AI.”…

“Spotify honors our users’ privacy rights, including the right of portability,” Spotify’s spokesperson said. “All of our users can receive…

Instead of providing notice to customers and obtaining or verifying customer consent itself, Verizon “largely delegated those functions via contract,”…

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has a simple request for the Trump administration: Don’t take our broadband money away. Trump’s Commerce…

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic’s rampant piracy of…

“For almost a decade, the Defendant led the scheme to systematically coerce and defraud women into engaging in filmed sexual…

SpaceX’s complaints to the Federal Communications Commission have helped the satellite company land a $17 billion deal to buy spectrum…

1935 Supreme Court is key precedent The key precedent in the case is Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935…

1935 Supreme Court is key precedent The key precedent in the case is Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935…

Midjourney could slow down the cycle and “minimize” these allegedly infringing outputs, if it cannot automatically block them all, WB…

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company…

A federal judge sided with Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, ordering the US government to unfreeze…

A Democrat who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission by President Trump was reinstated to her position yesterday in…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is teaming up with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to block funding for Wi-Fi hotspots…

And perhaps the biggest confounding factor for businesses attempting to align supply chain choices with predictable tariff costs is looming…

Rule-cutting and mergers on cable agenda As the NCTA’s new head, Gardner will be representing the interests of Comcast, Charter,…

The Federal Communications Commission’s Republican chairman is eliminating regulations at breakneck speed by using a process that cuts dozens of…

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment.…

And perhaps the biggest confounding factor for businesses attempting to align supply chain choices with predictable tariff costs is looming…

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Google of using “partisan” spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails…

The FCC’s threat drew widespread backlash from across the political spectrum. The conservative Free State Foundation told the FCC that…

“Commissioner [Frank] Bisignano and the Social Security Administration take all whistleblower complaints seriously,” the agency said. “SSA stores all personal…

However, the US can vote “as it wishes,” Intel reported, and experts suggested to Reuters that regulations may be needed…

We contacted the FCC and will update this article if it provides a response. The plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary…

Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data.…

During those chats, “ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times—six times more often than Adam himself,” the lawsuit noted. Ultimately, OpenAI’s system…

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with…

Fresh off his thorough victory over CBS News, President Trump is taking aim at ABC and NBC. “Why is it…

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia’s biggest bank is scrambling to…

After a judge warned that the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into Media Matters for America (MMFA) should alarm “all Americans”—viewing…

4chan’s law firms, Byrne & Storm and Coleman Law, said in a statement on August 15 that “4chan is a…

Intel has agreed to sell the US a 10 percent stake in the company, Donald Trump announced at a news…

“The defendant breached his employer’s trust by using his access and technical knowledge to sabotage company networks, wreaking havoc and…

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees,…

Since reducing costs was one of the Trump administration’s stated goals, and states are complying with that mandate, they have…

Trump plan salvages CHIPS Act he vowed to kill While chipmakers wait for more clarity, Lutnick has suggested that Trump—who…

Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability. After saying the Trump administration…

The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according…

Carriers claimed selling data didn’t violate law Instead of denying the allegations, the carriers argued that the FCC overstepped its…

“Perhaps the Defendants will establish otherwise later in these proceedings,” Sooknanan wrote. “But at this stage, the record certainly supports…

Musk claimed the request was to “ensure OpenAI was not being taken advantage of or corrupted by Microsoft,” but two…

Noting that its “project areas span from mountains and hills to farmland and coastal plains,” the DHCD said its previous…

Why Intel may be into Trump’s deal At one point, Intel was the undisputed leader in chip manufacturing, Bloomberg noted,…

We contacted the White House today and will update the story if it provides any comment. Ending “weaponization” Public Citizen…

xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok’s prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised…

After what was arguably Meta’s biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now…

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT…

Wikipedia’s parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government…

Beijing is demanding tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance justify their orders of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, complicating the…

Among concerned users fighting to block AI age checks is the petition starter, an anonymous YouTuber who runs a monetized…

“Until they’re able to defend their site and comply with platform policies (e.g., respecting user privacy, re: deleting removed content)…

A former adviser to Joe Biden’s Commerce Department, Alasdair Phillips-Robins, told Reuters that the levy suggests the Trump administration “is…

Intel and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s post. Intel shares dropped…

These sought-after regions are scientifically vital and geopolitically sensitive, as multiple countries want to build bases or conduct research there.…

But it’s never easy, groups said. Consider, for example, how now-defunct publishers might add a wrinkle to ownership questions with…

A toy company has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against a popular TikTok and Instagram account called “Sylvanian Drama.” Epoch Company…

Court ruled broadband isn’t telecommunications Although the Obama-era FCC won on this point in the District of Columbia Circuit in…

The Federal Communications Commission is hamstringing its upcoming review of broadband availability by ignoring the prices consumers must pay for…

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research.…

Once again, Apple escapes Trump’s iPhone pressure Since Trump took office, analysts have suggested that Cook might be the tech…

Some of Storm’s instant messages that his defense team wanted to use at trial. But Storm fought back. In a…

Nvidia said there are no backdoors or kill switches in its chips, denying an accusation from the Chinese government. The…

The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they…

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by…

The Tesla board approved the interim award yesterday, with recusals from Musk and his brother, Kimbal. The Tesla board is…

We asked the White House and European Commission for more details today and will update this article with any new…

The CAC did not specify which experts had found a back door in Nvidia’s products or whether any tests in…

Picking up where the FTC left off, lawmakers announced the Click to Cancel Act, which requires companies to “provide a…

Survivors, or their representatives, must submit claims by February 2, 2026. To receive compensation, claims must include at least one…

Delta scandal highlights value of transparency According to Delta, the company has “zero tolerance for discriminatory or predatory pricing” and…

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its…

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly…

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US…

But even Amazon may struggle to shift its supply chain as the de minimis exemption is eliminated for all countries.…

Moxon has switched to Ghost for his independent blog, The Reframe, an open source Substack alternative that woos users by…

Also on Friday, the Windscribe VPN service posted a screenshot on X claiming to show a spike in new subscribers.…

Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft and Meta since 2012…

The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of CBS owner Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance came with a condition to install…

But experts seem to fear that Trump isn’t paying enough attention to how exports of US technology could threaten to…

And while at least one analyst has suggested that the US and China may extend a 90-day truce ahead of…

Boerner said her goal with the bill “was always a basic broadband service” that would be affordable. “There are lots…

In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door,…

Nearly 150 employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sent an urgent letter of dissent to Congress on Tuesday, warning…

Earlier this summer, Grok shocked the world after Musk announced he would be updating the bot to eliminate a supposed…

“There is no fare product Delta has ever used, is testing or plans to use that targets customers with individualized…

Warning that the “Paramount payout” and “reckless” acquisition approval together mark a “dark chapter” for US press freedom, Gomez suggested…

Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app…

Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public Citizen, in a statement provided…

Yesterday, Ukrainian authorities arrested the suspected administrator of a notorious Russian-language crime forum, XSS.is. In an X post, the Paris…

“The targeted and proportionate actions we have set out today would enable UK app developers to remain at the forefront…

A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit…

X claimed that David Chavalarias, “who spearheads the ‘Escape X’ campaign”—which is “dedicated to encouraging X users to leave the…

“As part of our return to following the plain language of section 706, we propose to abolish without replacement the…

Under the terms of the legislation, recipients of such a notice are unable to discuss the matter publicly, even with…

While Trump and Musk have fallen out this year after developing a political alliance on the 2024 election, the US…

Although Delta’s AI pricing could increase competition in the airline industry, Slover expects that companies using such pricing schemes are…

CPB expenses in fiscal year 2025 are $545 million, of which 66.9 percent goes to TV programming. Another 22.3 percent…

Some Democrats supported the GENIUS Act, arguing that some regulation is better than none as cryptocurrency activity increases globally and…

“Without removal protections, that independence would be jeopardized… Accordingly, the Court held that the FTC Act’s for-cause removal protections were…

A former cop in the United Kingdom was sentenced to five and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading…

Grok checked Musk’s posts, called itself “MechaHitler” xAI has been checking Elon Musk’s posts before providing answers on some topics,…

“Society has long protected youngsters from products that aren’t suitable for them, from alcohol to smoking or gambling,” Ofcom said.…

Now, Herman is paying $80 a month to his own company for symmetrical gigabit service. Prime-One also offers 500Mbps for…

“Even if Beijing would choose to overlook the recent tariff hikes and ratcheting up of US export controls on chip…

Lawyers representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell were fined $6,000 after using artificial intelligence in a brief that was…

And “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter” with xAI, Yaccarino said. Grok cites “growing…

The code also details expectations for AI companies to respect paywalls, as well as robots.txt instructions restricting crawling, which could…

DOJ approval “reads like a complaint” The DOJ’s unusual statement about the wireless industry oligopoly shows that the Justice Department…

Update: Shortly after this article was published, the Department of Justice announced that it has closed its investigation into the…

The AI tool could also possibly be “overstepping in its interpretation of the audio,” possibly misinterpreting slang or adding context…

With Verizon seeking permission to lock phones to its network for six months or longer instead of the current 60…

Ars could not immediately find any legislation that seemed to match Prince’s description, and Cloudflare did not respond to Ars’…

FTC arguments rejected Summarizing the FTC’s arguments, judges said the agency contended that US law “did not require the Commission…

X is facing backlash after Grok spewed antisemitic outputs after Elon Musk announced his “politically incorrect” chatbot had been “significantly”…

Where trucks congregate There’s also a policy tool called indirect source rules, or ISR. The rules are called “indirect” because…

The 1,200 MHz between 5.925 and 7.125 GHz was allocated to Wi-Fi in April 2020 under then-FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.…

In a sudden reversal, Canada has caved and will remove its digital services tax after trade talks with the US…

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who…

Section 230 has so far failed to shield Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance from a lawsuit raised by a mother…

An early evaluation shows the administration’s planned energy policies would result in the drilling of 50,000 new oil wells every…

Cruz blamed “outside interests” After the compromise fell apart, the Senate voted 99-1 for Blackburn’s amendment to remove the AI…

Payout to future presidential library Paramount told us that the settlement terms were proposed by a mediator and that it…

Before xAI got the permit, residents were stuck relying on infrequent thermal imaging to determine how many turbines appeared to…

Separately, Trump v. Casa blocked the use of a national injunction against illegal activity. So, while the government’s actions have…

News orgs will soon start searching ChatGPT logs The clock is ticking, and so far, OpenAI has not provided any…

If AI note writers “generate initial drafts that represent a wider range of perspectives than a single human writer typically…

As Clothoff’s growth appears unstoppable, the user explained to Der Spiegel why he doesn’t feel that conflicted about using the…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for calling services…

AI companies must buy in For Cloudflare’s plan to work, AI companies must sign up, too. However, while some AI…

Michael Calabrese of New America’s Open Technology Institute told Ars that 6 GHz and CBRS “are the most vulnerable non-federal…

The proposed consent order, which is subject to a 30-day public comment period, would resolve an administrative complaint filed by…

But if you’re not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend…

With Comcast trying to figure out how to stop losing broadband customers, the cable firm yesterday announced new plans that…

In the meantime, the Copyright Office is in the odd position of attempting to carry on as though it wasn’t…

Justice Elena Kagan filed a dissenting opinion that was joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kagan said that…

Finally, the Consumers’ Research position produces absurd results, divorced from any reasonable understanding of constitutional values. Under its view, a…

An interesting wrinkle that may have stopped authors from invoking market dilution as a threat in the Meta case is…

It could certainly look worse for Meta if authors manage to present evidence supporting the second way that torrenting could…

Whether Trump’s appointees can manage DOGE without Musk’s help or his appointees remains to be seen, as DOGE continues to…

The Trump phone was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and…

The lawsuit alleged that Media Matters’ free speech rights are being violated “as state governments and now a federal agency…

“This order doubts that any accused infringer could ever meet its burden of explaining why downloading source copies from pirate…

Hunt’s fears are not unfounded, Corynne McSherry, legal director for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars.…

Blackburn said she agreed with Cantwell that the AI regulation proposal “is not the type of thing that we put…

“Where’s the support for that?” Young asked. “I see no evidence of that.” Meanwhile, a lawyer representing one of the…

Although that statement may provide comfort to those who have kept their WhatsApp numbers off the Internet, it doesn’t resolve…

Most obviously, AI models are still prone to hallucination, Kaur noted. And while Mattel’s AI toys are “unlikely to cause…

For many Americans, losing TikTok would be disruptive. TikTok has warned that US businesses could lose $1 billion in one…

“For instance, if all the 35 turbines operated by xAI were using” add-on air pollution control technology “to achieve a…

“Why—beyond the obvious benefit of gaining favor, directly or indirectly, with the Trump administration—did you select USD1, a newly launched,…

“It is our sincere belief that the current social media landscape makes it far too easy for bad actors to…

The departments of Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health were all compromised. A large roster of…

Critics warn that the United States may soon be taking on more nuclear safety risks after Donald Trump fired one…

Last Friday, a Michigan man named David Bartels was sentenced to five years in federal prison for “Possession of Child…

The new report concludes that not only will the expansion of ethanol increase greenhouse gas emissions, but it has also…

“This could also invoke issues with contract, property and intellectual property rights, and right of publicity as well if AI…

FTC chair alleged “serious risk” from ad boycotts After Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the social network lost advertisers for various…

Both countries agreed in Geneva last month to slash their respective tariffs by 115 percentage points and provided a 90-day…

Butcher said Lutnick is exercising “authority as a central government over the rights and expertise of a state body, which…

Elon Musk’s strategy of suing or threatening to sue companies that don’t buy advertising on X has reportedly paid off…

The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major news companies suing AI…

“DoD is concerned about the high possibility that non-Federal users will not adhere to the established coordination conditions at all…

Incompas, a communications industry trade group, said that revoking the deadline extension “would undermine regulatory certainty and threaten to disrupt…

Backlash to the idea was quick, with the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus immediately calling it “unethical.” “Allowing…

Jackson said the ruling “sends a troubling message” that the court will depart from its usual legal standards “for certain…

The administration says the plan will “drastically” speed up hiring while cutting costs. The plan said that efficiencies would be…

When plaintiff Catherine Jackson received her termination notice, she “was surprised to see recent performance ratings that were flatly incorrect,”…

According to a post on his blog, this was done with the approval of Musk before he left DOGE. “When…

There were at least 100 heat-related deaths in the state from June 26 to July 2, 2021, according to the…

In the copyright fight, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang granted the order within one day of the NYT’s request. She agreed…

BEAD changes: No fiber preference, no low-cost mandate The BEAD program is separately undergoing an overhaul because Republicans don’t like…

On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York…

Notably, Reddit pointed out that Anthropic’s Claude models will help power Amazon’s revamped Alexa, following about $8 billion in Amazon…

Two commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission are resigning at the end of this week. For at least a little…

“The court nevertheless required OpenAI to continue preserving API Conversation Data as well,” OpenAI argued, in support of lifting the…

A federal judge ruled today that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media platforms to block kids from…

Lutnick’s announcement of the BEAD overhaul also criticized what he called the program’s “woke mandates” and “burdensome regulations.” Republicans like…

The Trump administration weighed in on Cox’s side, arguing that ISPs should not be held “liable for contributory copyright infringement…

College students who have reportedly grown too dependent on ChatGPT are starting to face consequences after graduating and joining the…

Johnson, who heads China Strategies Group, a risk consultancy, said that China had successfully leveraged its stranglehold on rare earths…

Last week, Musk posted that he was “back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.” Lawsuits against…

Musk, so used to getting his way at his businesses, struggled for control. At various points in his tenure he…

Ars contacted Google to see if the glitch’s cause has been uncovered. A spokesperson remained vague, only reiterating prior statements…

A California bill would require $15 plans with download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps. The broadband lobby…

If MMFA is made to endure Paxton’s probe, the media company could face civil penalties of up to $10,000 per…